A short conversation between me and my conscience-
Dd...Dd......
Hmmm????
DD!!!!DDDDDDDDD....
WHAT??
Oh God.Stop reading Visions of Heat for a second.S A short conversation between me and my conscience-
Dd...Dd......
Hmmm????
DD!!!!DDDDDDDDD....
WHAT??
Oh God.Stop reading Visions of Heat for a second.Shouldn't you be writing a review for this book, instead of starting with the next one immediately?
All right!!!
Readers, this is one of the best PNR I have ever read.Excellent writing.Excellent characters.And a world in which you'll lose yourself.If there is anyone who has not yet read it, please do it ASAP!
There.Happy?
Huh.Fine, just do not forget that you have Chemistry to read too, or you'll flunk your exam.
Have you heard the tale of the Seven Wives of Bluebeard?
Once upon a time there was this powerful noble immensely wealthy.Everyone ca Hello Readers.
Have you heard the tale of the Seven Wives of Bluebeard?
Once upon a time there was this powerful noble immensely wealthy.Everyone called him Bluebeard because of his large, ugly blue beard.He had married several times but time and again all of his wives died.No one really knew how.
And then one day he married again.A lovely, young girl.Whenever Bluebeard had to go away, he would give her all the keys of his home.He told her she could use any key to go inside which ever room she desired.Except one little key which opened one little door.She was never to use it.
She tried to heed his warning.Day after day.Month after month.But at last, she could not stop herself any more.She opened the door with that little key, and looked inside..... -----------------------------
I guess it's human nature.Our inherent morbid curiosity. Mr. King got it perfectly.It was the same morbid curiosity which led our protagonist Danny, to go inside the Room 217.And yup, it was the same one which made me read this book.
I guess the results were kind of same too.
For Bluebeard's wife : Hanging inside the room were the heads of the last seven of the Bluebeard's wives.
For Danny : He found...no sorry, that will be a spoiler.
For me : Mind numbing, spine chilling terror.
I have read horror books before.By God, I have.I've had that phase when R.L.Stine was my best friend.I have read books with these horrifying inhuman, otherworldly creatures.
But this book, this book shook me up.
Why?
It might be because this book was so disturbingly, inhumanly humane.
Might being the operative word.I'm not really sure.
Now as for the story, it needs no introduction.Good for me as I'm not really in the position to describe it now.All I can say is I don't regret reading it.My first Stephen King, there will be many more.
I gave up pleading to the the heavens years ago.Ten years to be exact.The day he walked out of my life.The day the sun stopped shining and my world turned gray.The day that my dreams turned into nightmares.I miss my dreams, the sun, and I miss him.
Isabelle West (Izzy)-
Call me a masochist if you wish, but I am a total sucker for stories like this.Poignant, beautiful and full of heartbreak.
The book starts with a prologue with Izzy facing a living nightmare and somehow surviving the ordeal.
And then the story begins two years after that.Izzy is facing the demons from her past and trying to build a new life from the pieces she has left.A victim of an abusive marriage for years and years, she’s trying reinvent herself with her two best-friends, Greg and Dee, by her side.The brother and sister of her heart.
But even the years of her abusive marriage can’t hold a candle to the amount of pain and sheer grief she had to go through when she lost the love of her life at a very young age...Axel.
So as I was saying, a beautiful beginning as well as a beautiful premise.
A little more polish, like better dialogues, a little less cursing, a little less inner monologues of Izzy, and it would have been perfect.
So here I was, eagerly waiting for Axel to enter.At last my wait was over.Axel entered and the story suddenly spiralled downways!
Axel running after Izzy.Izzy running away from him.Everyone being cryptic....
Trying to be patient.
Izzy running, avoiding Axel, not listening to anyone, fighting with Greg, doing stupid things....
Desperately trying to patient.
Izzy treating Greg like crap.
I lost my patience.
I was trying, so very hard, not to judge her.I mean who am I to judge her, when I do not even have an inkling about what she went through.So no, it wouldn't have been right on my part to judge her.
But Greg, he was always there for her, without asking anything in return.He handled her at her very worst, never once judging her.Always dragging her from the brink of destruction.Picking up the pieces of her life and putting them together.
And just once, when did something he had to, in order to stop her from self-destructing, what did she do??
"I'm dead to you, you hear me.I do not exist to you."
I did judge her then.She lost my respect.
She might have earned it back if she had apologised.But she didn't.
But I did not give up.I was this close, but I managed to hold on.And I'm glad I did.Because the best parts came after that!!
“She was mine. She is mine. She will always fucking be mine.�
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“Hmm...can’t speak, huh baby? Just think how good it will feel when I bury my cock deep inside that warm pussy, when I fuck you so hard you will feel me for days. Going to make you drown in pleasure, fuck you so good, so fucking good.�
And then came the moment, when I helplessly fell in love with this man...Axel!!
"He's silent for a while.His body jerking slightly, giving away his silence.My big strong man is breaking."
Oh yes.How I love this man.
Now, came the climax.Well, I was disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the damsel-in-distress-saving-herself part.After all I'm a woman, and it depicts women power!!
But what I mean is, not just my Axel, the other hot boys in this story too...
They are lethal.They are dangerous.They exude the so called don't-mess-with-me vibe.
So tell me, is there any red-blooded female out there who does not want to watch them in action??? And not just in bed either.
I wanted to see them using those big guns, knives, all that ruthless power!
In fact there was no action at all.The climax was just too tame for me specially because of all these wild men who fired me up.
The ending though was very sweet!!
So overall 3 stars.
One last thing-
As a debut by Harper Sloan, this was a very promising read.I am pretty sure that she'll only get better with time.And I am very eager to see what she presents next.
That's all for now,Readers.
Ta-Ta!!
P.S. - Not much is required in the next book for me to love Greg.Because I love him already.
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